The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,054 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDA\T, AUGUST 31, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRlCl TEN CbNTS — o] AIRBORNE FORCES SWARMING ON JAPAN CONGRESSMEN OF WASH. STATE GET | TOJO FACES catiinG pown TRIAL,WAR “Seattle Newspaper De- clares They Are Dead on Feet Over Air Case SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—The state of Washington is “fated to become a jerkwater branch line on the main road of world air development” un- less its representatives in Washing- ton take “vigorus and affirmative| action,” the Post-Intelligencer says in a front page editorial captioned | “An Open Letter to Our Delegation in Congress.” “By government fiat the examin- ers of the Civil Aeronaugics Board propose to create an artificial ‘main line’ to Alaska and Asia via Chicago | and Edmonton ignoring | the gateways to the North and to the entirely | Seattle and Tacoma as the historic fall on those men who actually dir- apoard the Alaska this i CRIMINAL | TOKYO, Aug. 31.—Gen. H\dekl‘ Japan's Premier for most o(‘ s living quietly in retire- | ment at his home in a Tokyo suburb, | |it was learned today. i And, as far as the people of Nip- ! pon are concerned, “we don't care much for him any more,” said Saijo Hasegawa, chief of the Domei news agency foreign service. Some people here think Tojo mny! commit hara kiri. Others think he | Tojo, war, |won't and is prepared to accept Iull| responsibility as a war criminal. “We do not attribute any lespon- snablllly for the defeat to the Emper_ or,” Hasegawa said. “The stigma of losing the war will | ected it. The Americans do not| | Steamer ~laska a few hours after ABOARD STEAMER v Woowsicu, e o o Corregidor, reached here tonight —— | and on landing on Japanese soil de- aSka PU'S Bfl(k I“'O Kei_ ;{I‘:tm that “the shoe is on the other chikan to Discharge | Murder Suspect KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. {Joe “Tex" Byown, 45, local bar- tender, was charged yesterday with | | first degree murder growing out of the death by stabbing of Leo Wil- liams, 22, a Nogro, abeard the , BULLETINS YOKOHAMA — Lt. Gen. Jona- Al OTTAWA The wartime speed limit of 40 miles an hour was re- | voked today in Canads ment spokesman, ho! , request- ed motorists to continue driving onable speeds as a way of saving s and cars. 31— America’s change habits went e-down order WASHINGTO! over from wartime ahead today with a clos it headed north from here. Investigating authorities reported Williams was emroute to Anchorage to work on the Alaska Railroad and | that the stabbing followed a dice game. ment agencies—the OWI. President Truman told the Office of War In- formation to go out of business September 15. WASHINGTON Declaring “we must have the draft as an anchor to the windward,” Capt. H. G. Hop- wood, Personnel Officer, joined with arriving Juneau morning | about Passengers in report that the ship was A govern- | | for one of the big wartime govern- | BUCS' WIN OVER CUBS HELPS TO EASE CARD WAY Trio of Vita@ies Open in Two Major Ball Cir- cits Today By Jack Il‘.lml (Associated Press Sports Writer) Three of the most important ser- |ies still hanging on the Major League calendar open today as the Chi Cubs and St. Louis Cards come to grips for the National League while the American presents two dog | fights, featuring Detroit vs. Cleve- land and New York at Washington. Anything can happen to standings before Sunday night when |both the Red Birds and Senators | lcould be occupying the top downing to little casier yesterday by ,Clm.u,o slicing the Cub lead the | rung. | Pittsburgh made the Card's task ‘.; Three runs in the sev- AIRMENHELD SECRETLY IN - PRISONCAMP 103 Allied Fliers Rescued | from Unregistered Jap . Prisoner Depot i (By Associated Press) American oceupation forces have uncovered more evidence of in- human Japanese treatment of pris- oners of war. Rescuers today found | 103 Allied airmen who had been imprisoned for three years and hi not been permitted to send or ceive mail. The airmen were found in the in- famous Ofuna Prison Camp near Yokohama. It was an unmarked and unregistered prison camp, presence of which had not been ad | the | | i Nip’s Capital-Tokyo Given Inspection By Spencer Da | (Associated Press Corraspondent) TOKYO, Aug. 3l1-—Japanese 1\0- lice stand an indifferent guard on both banks of the Tama River bridge on the high road to Tokyo, {but on the north bank the Em- peror’s troops vigilantly patrol the | entrance and exits to Nippon's capital. { A few Americans who unofficially entered the bomb-ravaged city to- day in advance of United States JapsStand MORE ARMED Guard Along MEN LANDING . Tama River NIP SECTIONS Patrol Enfran(e Exits to Tateyama Naval Base Is Taken Over as Occupied Areas Increase ‘smanz SQUADS ARE THWARTED BY EMPEROR Epidemic of Surrenders Confinue-McArthur Soon to Move By LEONARD MILLIMAN the Army and Navy and also Presi- | four games. dent Truman for continuance of the |enth with the help of a triple by Al | Gionfrido, a double by Bill Salkeld land a single by Frankie Gustine de- Orient,” the article said. |understand that the Emperor’s word | ¢hree hours out of Ketchikan when “There is nothing in the record|is our people's voice,” the 42-year-'tne fracas occurred. The Alaska to date to indicate that a single old editor explained. |put back into Ketchikan to turn Senator or Representative from the! “That has saved Japan from inter- ' grown over to the federal authori- | disclosed to the Allies by the J Of the 103 ued airmen, were Americans except eight Er Ps. | troops feared that the presence of all | soldiers on the Tokyo side of the | bridge might have signified trouble, (Assceiated Press War Editor) Unarmed Americans wandered | through the streets of Tokyo today draft service, arriers State of Washington has lifted his voice during the negouauons for world air routes. KETCHIKAN PROTESTS KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 31— The Ketchikan Chamber of Com-| merce has joined the Seattle Cham- ber in protesting a proposed grant by the Civil Aeronautics Board of exclusive North Pacific aerial ngth' The protest | has gone to the CAB and to Alaska’s | Congressional Delegate Bartlett. | to Northwest airlines. — BETTY NORDLING LEAVES Miss Betty Nordling went south on the Princess Norah after spend- ing the summer vacation at the! homé’ of I parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Nordling. She is enroute to Minneapolis, Minn., where she will | reenter Miss Wood's Kindergarten | School, for her final year. During the summer months, she was em- ployed in the office of the Terri- torial Treasurer, ————— MISS SHATTUCK SOUTH Miss Virginia Shattuck, who has been spending a month’s vacation with her parents, Mr. Allen Shattuck, was an outgoing passenger on the Steamer Princess Norah. She is returning to the San | Francisco Bay area, to resume her position with the Pacific Gas and| Electric Company. The Washingion and Mrs. | nal trouble,” he added, “and Japan| is the only country to come through | |defeat with no threat of revolt.” It was the atomic bombing of Hnosmma and Nagasaki that broke Japan’s will to resist, Hasegawa be- lieves. (COASTAL AIRLINES E ON MANY FLIGHTS Airlines brought tof Alaska Coastal |the following eight passengers Landis, John Hammond, Thel Federson, J. Bjarneson, Mfldled {Tilson, V. A. Morgan, E. G. White- | | head, Harry Sperling, R. W. Harris, | .Phllhp Jurasin and Frederick Lloyd. From Ketchikan: S. P. Nock and Leonard Smith. From Tenakee: Frank Henly. From Hawk Inlet: Hans Floe, Fe-| lix Belles and Lopis Karsten, Jr. | FPFrom Hoonah: Wm. Lindoff and Eugene Fawsett, { From Petersburg: Tom McWhar- ton and L. H. McWharton. i Outgoing passengers were as fol- {lows: To Sitka: Sylvia Troyer and | Ron Livingston. ‘To Hoonah: Betty Moy, Muriel Cook, Hugh Antrim, Hugh Daniels, Mrs. Hugh Daniels, Ann R. Gillis, Ann Ross and O. H. Requian. From Excursion Inlet: Richard Adams, Katherine M. Janzer and Josephine Kosvich. Early morning trips today includ- |ed Sitka and Hoonah for the fol- Samm Asp and| 'NORAH IN FROM Juneau from Sitka, yesterday: Peggy\ WASHINGTON The Navy an- nounced today it would continue to make flight training availaktie to 17 and 18-year-old high schooi 2rad- uates or students in their last sem- ester of high school or secondary | school. ties. Much excitement aboard the steamer followed the slaying which took place in the steerage quarters. | According to stories spread here, | Brown followed the Negro victim Lo the latter’'s bunk to wind up |an argument that had started with the dice game. The knifing came | |about soon aiu‘r ROME — Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mu | solini and widow of Count Galeazzo | g (/"y} oo double with two out | iCiallu. was handed over to the Ttal- {ital Ministry of the Interior today by Allied authorities. She had been | I.ulm'd over to Allied author! s at Chiasso by the Swiss Government yest:rd;’y SKAGWAY, SOUTH | The Princess Nern.h arrived from “-‘k.ngwuy at 6 o'clock this morning ' | with the fullowmg 34 passengers dis- | embarking here: A, Coll, J. W. Sol- | hugard, D. G, Keene, N. V. Clark, ' R. Blenkinsop, Mrs. Blanspied, Mrs. |J. Beadle, P. J. Holm, H. Multon, | Mildred Hermann, W. H. Kimbrough }Mn E. Feight, Bea Farlow, Mrs. Ray Nevin, Juanita Plauntz, Mrs. P. La Grasse, Miss Tyache, H. Har- desty, Mrs. H. Hardesty, Viola Sul- ‘li\'xm, La Verne Sullivan, George | Bavard, Geraldine Davis, Bella Davis i Mrs. Coffey, M. Reid, Mrs. M. Reid, |H. P. Andrewsen, Mrs. H. P. An- {drewsen, E. J. Asselin, L, L. Hohn, Mr. Kofeman, Mrs. Dunn and Miss | Carrad. Leaving for the south at 9:30 this morning were the following: | To Seattle: Ted Richards, Mrs Ruth Richards, K. W. Oakson, As- trid Oakson, M. M. Miller, Zelma M. Miller, Catherine Hellan, Eileen WASHINGTON Gov. Fdward Martin of Pennsylvania told the | Senate Finance Committee today “the States are opposed to any bill Jor plan d \1dmlm\n tion insurance.” of unemployment SAN FRANCISCO — Tokyo radio Japanese forces in China would be | signed at Nanking September 6. LOS ANGELES—Barbara Hutton, thrice-married dime store heiress, has been granted a divorce from Cary Grant in a brief hearing at ywhich the British-born film actor did not appear. WASHINGTON United States during the last three months of the war, raising the total for the war to 1,256, the Navy announced. esigned to Federalize the| said today the formal surrender of | submarine sank 69 enemy vessels| { feated reliefer Paul Erickson. Stan |Hack's first inning single was the 12,000th hit of his The Cardinals and Cincinnati played their scheduled game at an |earlier date and all other | Leaguers were idle. i New York was the only contender |to gain in the American, by at 7-1 romp over Boston with Floyd Bev ens turning in a gaudy one-hit job. in the seventh ruined Bevens' hopcs for a no-hitter and a shutout. | Cleveland got away with a 4-4 tie| ‘ln Chicago, as Don Ross homered {after Dutch Meger singled in lh“ ininth frame off Orval Grove. | wne gtie game because the umpires ‘huN halt play by agreement 4t the lend of the ninth to permit the tube {to hop a rattler for Detroit. jother American Leaguers had an ()H s GAMES (American League) New York, 7; Boston, 1. | Cleveland, 4; Chicago, 4 | (Only games played). | (National League) { Pittsburgh, 6; Chicago, 4. (Only game pL.vmx (Pacific Coast League) Los Angeles, 3; San Francisco, 1. Hollywood, 5; Oakland, 2. amento, Seattle, 4. rtland, 6; San Diego, 1. THUK (Tie). STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS i (American League) National i lishmen. Some came from cs like the Essex, Wasp, Hornet, Frank- | La. There were fighter and bomber crews from the Marianas, China and the Aleutians. Some were sur- vivors from Wake Island. from the sub- from the U. stroyer Pope two marine Perch and one | 8. New York. 1494 PRISONERS " ARE FREED FROM AP "HELL HOLES' Are Being Trealed Aboard U.S. S. Ancon-Torture Stories Being Told |~ ABOARD U. 8. 8. ANCON, OFF YOKOSUEA, Aug. 31--Emaciated land starving, 1,000 or more Allied | prisoners of war reached this rescue 1 hip teday. Some said they had | spent months in solitary confine- ment_ under constant threat of | death. Thus far, 1494 prisoners have been freed from seven camps, Many {of the gallant survivors of Wake “md Bataan were among ther | Everyone rescued was suffering | from malnutrition, Navy Comdr. lLunld Stassen, former Minnesota And there | were two survivors from the de- | jbut such was not the case. | The Emperor’s rescript major league career. | lin, Lekington, Langley and Shangri | his people to lay down their arms had and accept surrender is being ob- | served with the utmost docility by | his subjects. Today they accept and treat with courtesy the same Am- ericans whose heads they would have dutifully chopped. off less | than a month ago. | sections Ruined A paratrooper, three other cor- respondents and I made certain |of this today when we drove into | Tokyo alone and unarmed. ‘[ We had an_opportunity to ob- | serve Tokyo's postwar population from the fire | thé¢ ruined dustrial® sections te | the Virtually-intact business areas bordering the moat of the Em- | peror's palace, and from the lobby (of the tasteful Imperial Hotel, bomb-scarred in only one wing, to 'a scrubby garage where men freshly | demobilized from the army and still ring their soldier caps patched a punctured tire. They then drove us to our stranded vehicle. Accompanying us was an inter- preter, Tadashi Furuno, Domei News Agency correspondent, Questions — Answers We had been among the first to drive into Yokohama on a search for prisoners of war and civilian internees, but they had been re- moved to other camps within the past 48 hours, Furuno chatted pleasantly as we rode. “What do you Americans think of Gen. -bombed wilderness of | \oiiing for the. epidemic of surs ordering | while occupation forces fanned out through 200 miles south apital and reached across Bay to begin taking over teyama Naval Base. Expressionless masks and occasi- onal friendly gestures of Nipponese in their own capital and occupied areus was in sharp contrast with new horror stories told by 1,500 prisoners of war so far freed nom the Tokyo area.- of the Tokyo the Ta- The incoming flood of heavily- armed airborne troops and the out- pouring of starved and beaten pris- cners steadily increased without renders scHeduled te follow signing - of Japan's formal capitulation abourd the Battleship Missourl Sunday (Saturday night < In the United States). Japanese com- manders in China, Indo=China, the Philippines, and Truk are among those who have arranged formal surrender for the next few days. Rubbel And Ashes Somberly-clothed Japanese looked curiously al Americans who pre- | ceded occupation troops into the Japanese capital, Like Yokohama, Tokyo had few bomb craters, al- though the downtown area was devastated. Fire bombs had swept out the paper houses, left concrete buildings and brick chimneys stand- ling amid ashes of the ruined city. Gen, MacArthur, now military ruler of Japan, soon will move his headquarters from Yokohama to MacArthur?” he queried. ‘“He's a great soldier,” we replied, and asked in return, “what do the Japanese think of Yamashita?" (Japanese commander the American Embassy in Tokyo. His move will follow, at an un- announced time, the arrival Satur- |day (Friday afternoon U. S. Time) in thelof ‘major units of Lt. Gen. Robert | Hellan, Mrs. Fern Strong, Mrs. O. J. Team— | Vincent, Donald Vincent and Flor- ence Major. To Vancouver: Miss I. Livie, A.| | N. Bily, Anne Bily, Michael Bily and Pet.| Governor, reported, and 80 per 570 cent of them showed “serious de- 561 ficiencies.” 531, Filthy “Hell Hole” 525! The worst cases were WASHINGTON-—The first major| Detroit break in the Navy's point system Washington for demobilization came today in an!St. Louis order reducing the number of points | New York lowing: To Hoonah: Frank See, Peter Williams, Mrs. Peter Williams and | James Parks. To Sitka: Ray Hope. Merry - Go-Round| By DRFW PEARSON at the who is scheduled ((ED. NOTE — Secretary of the Interior Ickes, in contribut- ing a guest column to Drew | Pearson, sent him the follow- ing letter in typical Ickes vein: vein:) “My dear Drew: “I am as willing as a mountain climbing burrow, but for reasons that appear in the timidly of- fered pieces herewith, it is liter- ally true that I could hardly think of a darned thing to say. I tried first on Benjamin Frank- lin. It seemed to me to be some- what labored and my very candid critic, Jane (Mrs. Ickes), felt the same way about it. So I took an entirely fresh 'start, again with a result of which I am not at all proud. “I am sending both efforts to you if only to prove that, even if unavailing, I have tried. You | may use either or neither. You may even splice them together in the bonds of unholy matrimony. I have no pride of authorship. You are at liberty to cut, rear- range or discard altogether—in other words, you ‘can use what you can and can what you can't.’ “If your subtle purpose was to | discourage me from ever becom- ing a columnist, you have done a better job than I have. I | marvel how you can turn out | one a day. 1 “Sincerely yours, “(Signed) HAROLD:L. ICKES, | “Secretary of the Interior. | By HAROLD L. ICKES | (Secretary of the Interior) | WASHINGTON — When I was asked to contribute a column in order that Drew Pearson might Early afternoon trips were as fol- | lows: 3 To Wrangell: Harold Davis. To Tenakee: Sam Asp. To Ketchikan: Sarah H. Frost, Elizabeth Shaw, Mary Lynch, Ter- esa W. Crowley, L. C. Peters and | Darrel Brostrom. To Hoonah: Frank Keller and Ed- ward R. Cox. From Petersburg: William McCal- | lister, e TWO FIRES Juneau Firemen answered two fire calls during the past 24 hours. Both were extinguished with only small damage. At 3:35 o'clock this after- noon a 2-9 call was sounded for the | vacant Olds house next to the Coop- | er Building on Fourth Street. A| fire upstairs was blamed on chil- dren. At 6 o'clock last evening a similar small blaze in a shed in! | fire scene. ————ee———— | ASP IN JUNEAU Sam Asp has arrived in Juneau| from Tenakee on an incoming Al- aska Coastal plane and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. — e i SWANSON HERE | Joanne McMath. jand battery, required by naval aviators for re- ease to 44. All other male reserve | officers need 49 points. To Wrangell: Miss Ruselin, Ken- neth Binkley, Harvey Gross, Dr Laszlo, Brig. C. C. Taylor, Bernice Floberg and Bill Compton. | To Ketchikan: Don L. Varges and taken over by the armed forces will Helen Bond. | be returned as soon as it is estab- T |lished they are no longer needed CANNERY WORKER DIES SEATTLE—Four hundred pounds Jose A. Nolasco, Filipino cannery of rare rose oil, one of the first worker at the Astoria-Puget Sound | commercial airline express ship- Cannery at Excursion Inlet, was ments from Russia, passed through found dead yesterday morning m ! here yesterday on its way to New | his bed. The remains were brought York. The shipment was consigned to Juneau by plane, and are at t%0 the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, New York, and was picked up at pending arrangements for burial in | Fairbanks, Alaska, by a PAA Clipper. the south. | SRR i T e ey |LOCAL DRUG STORES TO TONGASS IN PORT ; | REMAIN CLOSED MONDAY The Tongass, Alaska Transporta-, All Drug Stores in Juneau will tion Company ship, arrived this be closed all day Monday, Labor morning at 1 o'clock on the fifty- Day, according to an announcement ,xem of the Co-Op Grocery was Lhe!nrst voyage from the south, with by H. M. VanderLeest, speaking for| the following passengers: jaas, Mrs. L. Gusjaas, Dougherty and Verna Koski. - HEAD ARRAIGNED W. F. their customers this will mean a ‘two~day closing, and that week-end ! | needs should be taken care of thns ! evening and tomorrow. H - eee Charles Head, Negro rooming’ CAMPBELL IN JUNEAU house operator, accused of assault| W. Ross Campbell, of Kansas was arraigned here C. E. Swanson, of Petersburg, has arrived here and is a guest! at the Baranof Hotel. | —_————— | ROBERTS IN TOWN | J. E. Roberts, of Seattle, is a} guest at the Baranof Hotel. J‘ - e 1 MRS. SALZMAN ARRIVES Mrs. F. A. Salzman, of White- horse, is a guest at the Baranofl| Hotel. - DREW IN TOWN have a vacation, I accepted in my (Continued on Page Fn;r; e E. M. Drew, of Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | School, beginning Sunday, Sept. coming Pan American Clipper from Seattle and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. PUGH AND PERRY HERE J. S. Pugh and 8. E. Perry, of Belmont, Calif,, arrived on an in-, coming Pan American Clipper from yesterday before U. S. Commis- sioner Felix Gray and is being held | in the federal jail in default of $1,000 bond. BESRF U Sy | CHAPEL-BY-THE-LAKE STARTS SUNDAY SCHOOL Now that the summer vacation | las ended, the “Chapel-By-the-| Lake” will again have Sunday 2l at 10:30 a. m. All members are asked to be present. Anyone living on the highway wishing to attend will be welcome. anof Hotel. AL L e SKAGWAY WOMEN HERE Failow arrived here aboard Princess Norah from Skagway and are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. WASHINGTON—Civilian airports | L. Gus-|the druggists. They wish to remind| City, arrived in Juneau on an in-| Seattle and are guests at the Bar-, Mrs. C. E. Feight and Beatrice the chikan to Juneau: M. J. Haas, E. L. 521 496 A72 314 Cleveland ! Chicago Boston | Philadelphia i (National League) | Team-- w. ! Chicago 6 St. Louis 3 | Brooklyn 68 |New York 67 Pittsburgh 66 | Boston 56 Cincinnati 49 Philadelphia .36 Pet | 633 598 562 540 516 455 405 293 (Pacific Coast League) Team— W. L Portland 94 | Seattle 91 | San Francisco 80 | Sacramento 79 | Oakland 74 | San Diego 2 |Los Angeles 06 Hollywood 61 ——— STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 NEW YORK, Aug 31 — Closing | quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine ‘swck today is 7, American Can 103, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-Wright 60%, International Harvester 90, | Kennecott 38%, New York Central 125%, Northern Pacific 27%, U. 8. Steel 72, Pound $4.02%. i Sales today totaled shares. 1 Dow, Jones averages today are 'follows: Industrials, 174.28; r 56.28; utilities, 33. | - | ELLIS TRANSPORT HERE | Ellis Air Transport today brought the following passengers from Ket- Pet. 595 519 513 481 462 42 396 1,100,000 | as Evans, Harold Foss, Frank Heintz- leman and Charles Burdick. 610 Shinigawa Hospital. “No, don't call it ‘a hospital, call it a hell hole. The filth was indescribable.” A Dr. Cottfried who had been a Navy dector at Guam had been put |to work there with pick and shovel —and nct allowed to e any pro- fessional aid to fellow prisoners, Stassen related. A few of the prisoners red fingers—evidently the result of Japanese torture. One “inquisition center” from which several men were liberated, will not be further identified until after it is fully occupied. “Hell Hole Hospital” | At “Hellhole Hospital,” one Aus- tralian patient had died 24 hours before the Americans arrived, and was still unburied. A British de- stroyer provided a guard of honor and he was interred with full mili- ary rites. Despite the hazard, prisoners said they always welcomed American | bombing raids on Japan. “Special” Classification | Many B-29 crewmen were among {the prisoners and had been beaten severely; airmen, like submarines, | were placed in a “special” classifi- cation by the captors. Conditions improved after Japan's surrender was announced, the pr |oners said. Beatings were less fre | quent, and from plane-dropped ra- tions the men got their first real |meal in months. D e MILDRED TILSON HERE Mildred n arrived on incoming Alaska Airlines from Sitka and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. an - - s - MARY HOKE HERE Mary Bonita Hoke has arrived Lere via Woodley Airways from Anchorage, and s a guest at the| ]Bumnol Hotel, plane | Philippines surrender Monday.) “He’s a great replied unperturbedly. Then he asked the question to o1, Eichelbergor's will take Eighth over the /Army, which Tokyo soldier,” Furuno' gyeq. | No Love For Defeat ‘The Eighth will land at Yoko- which all Japan is anxiously await-'jqma already occupied by members ing the answer: “Will MacArthur | We didn't answer be stern?" that one. of rubble but square block after square block was flattened. ->o "All About ... . This Weekend Primed to start prowling and | popping with the opening of the! (hunting season tomorrow, many groups of Juneauites, including se | eral parties of servicemen, are plar ning to go, up the rivers and into the hills for the holiday weekend. Boats and planes are being press- of the Eleventh Airborne Division which landed yesterday at Atsugi | Airtield, and at Tateyama, near the On the outskirts of TOkyo We|y, of the Peninsula separating found the streets all neatly swept | Tokyo Bay from the ocean, ,company of Marines | Tateyama A moved into prepare for today to their arrival. Many Japanese expressed relief that the war was over but they I had no love for defeat or an alien e going, or have gone | | Tokyo Bay, ed into service to take care of the| outflow as sportsmen | their first postwar season though guns and ammunition are till listed among the rare things of |life. Taku River seems to be a most prepare for | even | | army on their sacred islands. Stories were told of plans by the Kamikaze (suicide) Corps to shoot | down the Emperor's surrender emis- saries to MacArthur, a plot said I to have been thwarted by the Em- pLIOl himself, Minesweepers Busy The work went on for busy American minesweepers clearing now an American lake pock-marked by wreckage of the Imperial Navy, which saw the war end with only one undamaged first line ship to its name-the | Cruiser Sakawa. The Yokosuka Naval Base, once | the proud guardian of approaches |favored hunting area this year, with | |moose as the Island is also working over as nimyods fleeting deer are planning to use Lake Hassel- |borg as a base. | Alaska Game Commission pilot | Del Freimuth this morning reported i-»igl\llnu lots of deer—but all wore mighty high in the hills, hunters who | next uwm, he prophesied. quarry. Admiralty expected to get a stalk the to Tokyo, is being developed as a shore station for Admiral Halsey's Fhird Fleet and attached British units. Occupation will spread to south- . At elast two groups €rn Japan next Monday when Gen, Walter Krueger's Sixth Army vet- erans of New Guinea and the Philippines start moving into Kyushu Island. Chinese troops moved into Han- Those | kow, long the luvader's base in bring back trophies | Central China, and started down: week will have well earned | the road to Hanoi, capital of !ndt)u China.